Apologize first sounds like submit and fall back in line first fuck that shit
It's exactly what everyone who got everything wrong during 2020 wants to do. "Admit that i never did anything wrong and I'll treat you with the respect that I should always have done and explicitly refused to give you." Basically saying that their abiltiy to be decent human beings is predicated on whether you admit that's what they are... making them bad people and forcing you to be dishonest to join them.